Spotlight Project: MasterPEACE: Young Artists Making A Kinder World
2007-09-06
The interactive public artwork, STATIONS, will make its Dallas debut September 6 – 7 and then move directly to NY City for the inaugural gala of the Desmond Tutu Education Center. STATIONS will then continue touring U.S., Europe and Africa with the play, “Truth in Translation”, which centers on the translators who participated in the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa.
Karen Blessen, artist and founder of the non-profit arts organization TODAY MARKS THE BEGINNING, and current President Diane Hosey contacted Dallas artist Nancy Rebal to discuss the idea of a traveling interactive artwork that would accompany Michael Lessac’s play, “Truth in Translation” on its world tour. An artistic collaboration grew bringing in other Dallas artists Tim Coursey and David Searcy plus James Neel. The collaboration conceived a graffiti wall which was later expanded and renamed, STATIONS: An Interactive Public Artwork.
Six stark panels 7’ tall x 3’ wide of gray sheet metal are hinged together into a wall. Following the theatrical performance of “Truth in Translation” audience members may speak words of a personal forgiveness into one of six “stations” to be electronically recorded. The murmur of the previously collected voices washes over the individual and then the newer voices will float on the surface for a short time before losing their separateness. At the same time, STATIONS is a surface for writing. The smooth sheet metal walls in which the microphones are imbedded serve a second interactive purpose. Clusters of permanent markers hang from cords on each panel. Visitors are asked to write their reactions and intentions regarding forgiveness. As these ‘graffito’ are accumulated, they will become a visual equivalent to the sound.
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